PRESS RELEASE: GAMBIAN ARTISTS RECORD A TRIBUTE SONG FOR MUSA AFIA NGUM Barely less than 24 hours after the demise of Musa Afia Ngum, a few of his admirers came together and set up the Musa Afia Ngum Tribute Committee whose mandate is to maintain the legacy of the legend and raise funds for his family. The committee started by setting up a Gofundme account, which currently has £380 raised between October and December of 2015. Donations can still be made at: https://www.gofundme.com/wr6d7jb8 . If you live in the UK, you can still make cash or check donation by…
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In a rather disturbing News being reported on Senedirect a Senegalese paper, the embattled and internationally isolated Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh has allegedly invited the leader of the world’s most notorious terrorists group ISIS – Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to visit the small West African State of the Gambia. The report as reproduced below through Google translation by Senedirect.com the most wanted terrorist whose where about is unknown at this point, allegedly sent a delegation to Banjul upon the Gambian President’s announcement that the Gambia is now “An Islamic State”. The ISIS delegation according to the report included the Islamic State’s Defense…
By Mathew K Jallow The needless executions, in 2012, of twenty-six people, all of who were inmates at the scene of more than five hundred deaths, since 1994, Gambia’s notorious Mile 2 Central Prison, reinforced the belief that Yahya Jammeh had reached the peak of insanity. The startling executions, in 2012, preceded by five mass murder incidences, dating back to the November 1994 executions of nine military officers, typify the notorious ruthlessness of Yahya Jammeh and his military henchmen. But, notwithstanding those tragedies, Gambians recently woke up to a different kind of reality; a craziness that embodies the quintessence of…
By D. A. Jawo It has now become quite evident that President Yahya Jammeh has very little regard for the very constitution that he had sworn to defend at all times when he took the oath of office. On the contrary, he regularly takes decisions that clearly violate the constitution with complete disregard to what anyone says. For instance, his verbal declaration of the Gambia as an Islamic States without going through a referendum as demanded by the constitution, is by all accounts a violation of the fundamental law of the land. While President Jammeh as chief executive is the…
New Flash: Tempo Afric TV Clocks One Year By Yero Jallow TempoAfrictv, accessible online www.tempoafrictv.com, on ASTV and RUKU clocks one today January 9th 2016. The anniversary is being celebrated by its entire staff at Jambo Africa, a restaurant that specializes in African food, entertainment and anniversaries. According to Alioune Samb, one of the Managers, “This century is the century of the African, we just have to believe. The miracle happens by what we all do daily, to bring the changes in our continent.” Petros Haile, host to “Beyond the Headlines” at Tempoafrictv when contacted for comments said,…
The Gambia is slowly drifting from what it used to be – the exemplary state that respects and protects the religious and cultural rights of every citizen. Apart from the so-called Jihads that were fought in the mid-1800s, I have never heard or seen Gambians fighting over what language one speaks or what religion or method one uses to worship God. Although a majority Muslim country, religion has never played a central part in our politics and I see no reason why it should now. Those that tried to use Islam (Muslim Congress Party) were defeated by the forces…
PDOIS’ POSITION ON HEAD TIES FOR WOMEN AND WITCH HUNTING Patriarchy In State Administration (The Contradictory Statements and Values of The Executive) Issued By Halifa Sallah 6th January 2016 For the Central Committee On 4th January 2016, a memorandum is reported to have been issued by the Personnel Management Office indicating the following: “This is to inform you that an executive directive has been issued that all female staff within Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies are no longer allowed to expose their hair during officials working hours with effect from December 31, 2015. Female staff are urged to use head tie…
Twenty seven years ago on 31 December 1988, the current Legal Practitioners Act (LPA 1988) entered into force. Its “objects and reasons” were stated thus: “An Act to establish a General Legal Council, to make provision for the admission of persons to practice as legal practitioners before the courts of The Gambia, to provide for professional discipline of such legal practitioners, and for connected matters”. A generation later, the toddlers, and in some cases the unborn, as of 1988, are pursuing legal education at both the academic and professional stages of training right here in the Republic of The…
By Sulayman Saul Saidykhan Even at 73 years old, he is alert. He stands tall both literally, and figuratively. With the genes of the willowy Sahel nomad in him, his gait is wide, steady, graceful, and agile. Born to a poor Fulani father and a Hausa mother in present day Katsina State in North Central Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari enjoys fervent loyalty from Nigeria’s majority poor population especially in northern Nigeria because he has never forgotten his own humble beginnings. Despite the high offices he has held at national level or in spite of them as a senior military officer:…
By Sanna Camara An international Catholic NGO has reached the final stage of over two years’ process to repatriate Gambian girls from Lebanon, who have been trafficked to work as house servants in the Middle Eastern destination country. This comes against concerted efforts to stem trafficking in persons for which The Gambia has been named “a source, transit and destination country” by a US State Department’s Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report since 2014. Authoritative sources in Beirut have informed Gambia Beat that all are set for the girls, who are scheduled to leave for Banjul in the coming weeks…